The End of Longing, by Ian Reid
I rather liked this book. You could characterise it as historical fiction, but there’s a bit more to it than that… Based loosely on the Ian Reid’s own family’s history, it’s the story of the enigmatic...
View ArticleMeet an Aussie Author: Ian Reid
Ian Reid is a ‘new’ author on the Aussie scene, though I’m tagging him as a Kiwi as well since he was born in New Zealand. The End of Longing is his first novel (see my review) but he’s a widely...
View ArticleThe Mind’s Own Place, by Ian Reid
Having just recently re-read Roger McDonald’s masterpiece The Ballad of Desmond Kale, I found myself receptive to the idea of colonial Australia as a place of redemption in Ian Reid’s new novel, The...
View ArticleAuthors from Western Australia (Australian Authors #3)
I’ve had a draft of Australian Authors #2 in the innards of this blog for a while, but I’m scampering on to #3 because the Australian Society of Authors is tweeting that literature funding in WA is in...
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